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...picked successor and loyal supporter for committing grave political errors. Deng should have the personal prestige, like Mao again, to ride out this considerable reverse. But the history of Mao's cultural revolution should warn Deng that the demotion of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang may have started the rot not stopped...
...police defiance by inaction: no work, bad work, late work? How to police drink and jazz and love? For short bursts of time you can jail, even shoot, people for such crimes. But after a while you run out of bullets, jails, energy, even victims. Then the rot sets...
...develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
...California vintners, late summer is usually a time for crushing grapes after the harvest. But at several of the state's wineries, some of this year's crop may rot rather than become a hearty vintage. A strike by the Distillery, Wine & Allied Workers' International Union that began on Aug. 18 and soon curtailed production at six locations spread to three new sites last week, as workers began picketing the Charles Krug plant in Napa Valley, the Gibson winery in the Central Valley and Almaden in San Jose. Union leaders are threatening to strike at E. & J. Gallo, the industry...
...Soviet Union has been expansionist throughout history and will continue to expand because, "that which stops growing begins to rot," Ulam said quoting a Soviet official...